memories
At Alingsås Jazz Society
The
Red Wing Band swinging at Alingsås Jazz Society, November 27,
2008: Leif Melldahl, bass,
EvaKarin Andersson, vocal, Mathias Gustavsson, banjo, Lasse Collin,
clarinet, tenor sax,
Lennart Carlsson, drums, Hans Zakrisson,
trombone, and Sune Linder, piano. Pic
Vivi-Anne Björkdahl.
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Click here and listen to some of the tunes Red Wing played at Alingsås
Jazz Society.
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Pic of the year
"Play
some happy jazz, please!"
Sune Linder, Hans Åsberg, Hans Zakrisson and Lasse Collin
contemplating behind stage in Aalborg, July 31, 2008. Photo
Vivi-Anne Björkdahl.
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Back
in Denmark
Red Wing in Aarhus and Silkeborg, October
3-4,
2008: Leif Melldahl, bass, Lasse Collin,
tenor sax, Lennart Carlsson, drums, Hans
Zakrisson,
trombone, Hans Jörgensen, banjo,
Brian Carrick, clarinet, tenor sax,
vocal, Sune Linder, piano, and Eva Karin Andersson,
vocal.
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Click
here and listen to some of the
tunes Red Wing played in
Silkeborg.
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Göteborgs Jazzfestival 2008
Red Wing at Göteborg Jazzfestival August 8-9,
2008: Leif Melldahl, bass, Lasse Collin, tenor sax,
Eva Karin Andersson, vocal, Lennart Carlsson, drums, Hans Zakrisson,
trombone, Lennart Mysto
Werdell, banjo, and Brian Carrick, clarinet and tenor sax. Outside the
picture: Sune Linder, piano.
1.
Click
here and listen to some tunes Red Wing played at Artisten
August 9.
2.
Click here to look at a photo show from Göteborg Jazzfestival 2008 and
hear Red Wing play "Smiles".
3. Click here for
Vivi-Anne Björkdahl's and Tove Feragen's
pictures of Red Wing at Göteborg Jazzfestival 2008.
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Nice
days in Aalborg
Some of the boys in the band in Aalborg July
31-August 2: Leif Melldahl, bass, Mathias
Gustavsson, banjo, Lasse Collin, tenor sax, Hans Åsberg, drums, and
Sune Linder, piano.
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At
Kometen in June.
The Red Wing Band at Kometen June 16, 2008: Lasse
Collin, tenor sax, Leif Melldahl,
bass, Hans Zakrisson, trombone,
Lennart Mysto Werdell, (behind) banjo, Eva Karin
Andersson, vocal, Hans Åsberg,
drums, Brian Carrick, clarinet, tenor sax, vocal, and
Sune Linder,
(behind) piano.
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The
band with Brian Carrick and
Eva Karin at Alingsås Jazzfestival 2008:
Saturday
April 26 in a very hot and very crowded MX.
Later
in the evening at Grand Hotel, a very tight and swinging session.
Sunday
April 27 closing the Alingsås Jazzfestival with a church concert with
Vox Femina.
Pics: Bosse Bus Löfgren
and Tove Feragen.
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Outdoor
jazz
Playing outdoors at the opening ceremony of
Alingsås Bodagar, April 18, 2008.
Hans Åsberg, drums, Leif Melldahl, bass, Lasse Collin, tenor sax, Mysto
Werdell, banjo,
Hans Zakrisson, trombone, Sune Linder, piano, and Brian Carrick,
clarinet and tenor sax.
Photo
Bo Löfgren
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Playing
in Denmark
The
Red Wing Band and Brian Carrick in Denmark 2008. Jazzclub Satchmo in
Aalborg, April 4, and Haderslev Jazzclub (pic), April 5. Leif
Melldahl, bass, Lasse Collin, tenor sax, Lennart Carlsson, drums, Hans
Zakrisson, trombone, Mathias Gustavsson, banjo, Brian Carrick, clarinet
and sax, Ingemar Wågerman, piano, and Eva Karin Andersson,
vocal. Click here
for some pics and comments from Jazzclub Satchmo. And here you can listen to some recordings from
Haderslev. Photo
Tove Feragen
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| Lena
Melldahl's birthday party |
When Lena Melldahl had her birthday
February 9th, Red Wing
for the first time played with a nyckelharpa in the band. |
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Publikens
favoriter!
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In
tour of England!
In
September 2007 Red Wing was on tour of England playing 9 gigs in 11
days. Brian
Carrick, clarinet and
tenor sax, Hans Zakrisson, trombone, Lasse Collin, tenor sax and
clarinet, Sune Linder, piano, Lennart Mysto Werdell, banjo, Leif
Melldahl, bass, Ronald Andersen, drums, and Eva Karin Andersson, vocal.
You
can listen to some of the music
here.
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Rotherham
Jazzclub, Rotherham
The Swan
Hotel, Maldon
Amersham
Jazzclub, Beaconsfield
Electric
Palace Theater, Harwich
1066
Jazzclub, Hastings
The 51
Jazzclub of Cornwall, Rosudgeon
The 51
Jazzclub of Cornwall, Rosudgeon
Little
Witley Village Jazzclub, Little Witley 
Sidcup
Jazzclub, Sidcup
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"It swings
like hell!"
(A cd-record from the tour
of England is in production.
This text is from the cover.) |
For a
Swedish band playing old style jazz is
going on a
tour of England like going back into the history started by Humphrey
Lyttelton, Chris Barber, Ken Colyer and others in the 1950’s. It’s a
great feeling to play in some of the same halls and for the same kind
of genuine audience as they did (and some of them still do).
The Red Wing Band of Gothenburg did that
in
September 2007 on a tour arranged by Brian Carrick, one of our personal
favorites in the New Orleans music of today and our honoured guest at
many gigs in Sweden. In eleven days we played nine gigs at jazz clubs
in southern England.
Such a tour is also a great adventure.
Travelling with all our instruments and
luggage in a
VW-bus, driven by the wild Danish drummer Ronald Andersen (mostly known
as a fine swing guitarist), following Brian’s car and his new gps,
whose mysterious orders made us see a lot of the beautiful landscape.
But thanks to a lot of inns we did survive and sooner or later always
landed on the right spot reaching the gig for the night in almost
acceptable condition.
Then, on stage, it also seemed that the
experienced
English audience appreciated our music.
Most of all the beautiful voice of young Eva Karin
Andersson, whose singing and swinging of the old tunes in a natural New
Orleans style really is something extra.
Then our unorthodox blowing section with
Brian
Carrick and Lasse Collin altering on clarinets and tenor saxes in their
very personal way, together with Hans Zakrisson often playing the lead
on his smooth trombone. This setting gave an extra swing to the music
and the band a very special sound.
Sune Linder and his twentytwo fingers on
the piano is also a rare attraction.
And then the mean rhythm machine behind
it all with
Mysto Werdell on the banjo, Leif Melldahl, bass, and Ronald Andersen on
his NO-drums. They sure gave the hornmen as much energy as they could
take.
”It swings like hell”, was the usual
comments.
The idea to make a record came from
Brian calling us
up in the bus on his mobile, telling us he had Peter Kings
waiting
to record us.
Therefore this cd is recorded in Little
Witley
Village Jazz Club, September 26th 2007, the eighth gig on the tour of
England that Red Wing, Eva Karin, Brian and Ronald did together.
What we played that night in all those extra
recording
mikes, was maybe not the best of the tour, but it gives a good taste of
the kind of jazz we like to play.
It’s not about perfection, it’s improvisation and
feeling
and swing, and that’s what this cd hopefully gives to you.
Enjoy!
The Red Wing/Brian Carrick cd is meant to be ready
in June. Waiting for this occasion you can listen to some of
our music
here.
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Borås
Tidning 30
augusti 2007:
Lyckad
jazzkväll
Club
Jazz Intime:
RED WING
Scen: Plaza, Borås
Club
Jazz Intime
inledde i onsdags sin höstsäsong. Det blev en mycket lyckad start. På
scen: orkestern Red Wing. Bandet har en klar förankring i New
Orleans-stilen, men har också andra rytmer och stilar i sin repertoar.
Sättningen var två blåsare, trombone och tenorsax/klarinett plus fullt
komp. Till dessa en synnerligen behaglig vokalist.
Kid
Thomas
Valentine's Algiers' Strut fick ett framförande som klart visade i
vilken stilart Red Wing har sin hemvist. Efter ett kollektivt
improviserande hade Lasse Collin ett utmärkt klarinettsolo. Hans
Zakrisson hade många goda trombonsolon under kvällen. I My Little Girl
visade han sig också vara en svängig vokalist. Här öste också Collin på
för fullt med sitt mustiga tenorspel.
Vad
gäller det
vokala, så har bandet en tillgång i Eva Karin Andersson. Särskilt
minnesvärt är hennes framförande av den sakrala His Eye Is On The
Sparrow. Här hade också Sune Linder ett förnämligt pianospel. Dels i
inledningen tillsammans med sången, och sedan även ett elegant solo. I
den gamla schlagern Love Letters In The Sand var det trevliga
soloutrymmen för banjo, Lennart Werdell, och bas, Leif Melldahl.
Stilenligt trumspel svarade rutinerade Hans Åsberg för.
Walter
Donaldson har
gjort många goda melodier. En vacker, mera sällan hörd, presenterade
Red Wing med sång av Eva Karin; A Thousand Good Nights. Med den gamla
spiritualsången I'm Going Home To See My Lord avslutade Red Wing en
lyckad kväll.
Det var
tio år sedan
Red Wing var här senast, det skall inte dröja lika länge innan vi vill
höra er igen, sa ordföranden Lotta Kallin. Det tar vi som ett löfte.
Bibben
Fagerström
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Red
Wing in Gothenburg Festival.
In Gothenburg
Jazz
Festival August 11 The Red Wing Band first played
a concert at Harry´s Rest. then performed outside Stora Teatern. You
can
listen to some nice recordings from the concert at Harry's here.
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Shaking Kometen.
The
Red Wing Band shaking Restaurant Kometen July 23, 2007: Leif Melldahl,
bass,
Lasse Collin, tenor sax and clarinet, Hans Zakrisson, trombone, Mathias
Gustavsson,
banjo, Hans Åsberg, drums, Eva Karin Andersson, vocal, and Sune Linder,
piano.
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Thanks for a cosy
festival!
Alingsås
Jazz Festival is a cosy festival of the right size in a nice town. This
year the festival was April 27-29 and held for the 7th time. Thanks to
the organizers in Alingsås Jazz Society there were a lot of good bands,
all playing well, and a great enthusiastic audience who seemed to like
the music and having a good time. As last year The Red Wing Band both
started and finished the festival. On Friday we played an free concert
outdoors on the marketplace, where the festival had a scene for the
first time. On Saturday we had two concerts with our ordinary super
guest star Brian Carrick on the main scene in First Grand Hotel. And on
Sunday we finished the whole festival with a gospel concert in
Christinae Church together with the choir Vox Femina. The music was
swinging, there was spring in the air, the sun shined bright on the
little lucky town, and a great lot of beer was consumed...
Alingsås
Jazzfestival är en mysig festival i det rätta formatet i en vänlig och
vacker stad. Det här året hölls festivalen 27-29 april och för sjunde
året på raken. Arrangörerna i Alingsås Jazzsällskap hade dragit ihop en
massa bra band, som alla spelade inspirerat för en stor entusiastisk
publik som verkade gilla vad den hörde. Som förra året både startade
och avslutade Red Wing Band festivalen. På fredagen spelade vi en
gratiskonsert utomhus på torget, där festivalen för första gången hade
en scen. På lördagen hade vi två konserter med vår "super guest star"
Brian Carrick på huvudscenen på First Grand Hotel, och på söndagen
avslutade vi hela festivalen med en gospelkonsert i Cristinae Kyrka
tillsammans med kören Vox Femina. Musiken svängde, det var vår i
luften, solen sken på den lilla lyckliga staden, och det dracks en
massa öl...
The
Red Wing Band with Brian Carrick and Eva Karin Andersson
in full swing at First Grand Hotel. Pic:
Tove Feragen.
Click here if you want to
see some more pics from the festival.
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Cool jazz.
Hot
jazz on a cool square in Alingsås, Alingsås Bodagar, April 20, 2007:
Hans Åsberg, drums,
Lasse Collin, tenor sax, Mathias Gustavsson, banjo, Leif Melldahl,
bass, Hans Zakrisson,
trombone, Sune Linder, piano, Brian Carrick,
clarinet. Pic:
Bus Löfgren
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Memories of Tibro.
The
Red Wing Band in Tibro, April 18, 2007: Lasse Collin, tenor sax,
Lennart Mysto Werdell, banjo,
Lennart Carlsson, drums, Leif Melldahl, bass, Hans
Zakrisson, trombone,
Sune Linder, piano, Eva Karin Andersson, vocal, Brian Carrick,
clarinet, tenor sax, vocal. Pic:
Gunnar Smedberg
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Jazzin' in Billdal
The
Red Wing Band with Eva Karin Andersson in action at Jazz in Billdal,
March 3, 2007.
Pic: Tove Feragen
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Congratulations,
Alingsås Jazz Society!
Eva
Karin,
Vivi-Anne and Hans with the "Cultural Prize of Alingsås 2006".
Yesterday
(Jan. 25) Red Wing played at "A night for Alingsås" where Alingsås Jazz
Society got the award "Cultural Prize of Alingsås 2006". Among others
for the work with Alingsås Jazz Festival, which in a few years has been
a big international event for the city. The family behind the Jazz
Society is Hans Zakrisson (also trombone player in Red Wing) and his
wife Vivi-Anne Björkdahl. Here with Vivi-Anne's daughter Eva Karin,
popular singer in Red Wing.
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Red Wing in Stena's
nightclub.
The Red Wing
Band playing in
the night club onboard Stena Line to Kiel, November 23-24.
Eva Karin
Andersson, vocal, Leif Melldahl, bass, Lasse Collin, tenor sax, Lennart
Carlsson, drums,
Hans Zakrisson, trombone, Lennart Mysto Werdell,
banjo, and Sune Linder, piano.
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Red
Wing in the church of Bjärnum.
The Red Wing Band playing in
the church of Norra Åkarp in Bjärnum for the local Rotary club
and
Doctors in Africa, November 19, 2006. Gunnar Smedberg, bass, Hans
Åsberg, drums, Lasse
Collin, tenor sax, Lennart Mysto Werdell, banjo,
Hans Zakrisson, trombone, Sune Linder, piano,
and Eva Karin Andersson,
vocal. Click for more pics here!
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Club Classic Jazz
The band listening to a nice slap-bass solo by Per Bach, substitute
from Second Line Jazzband, at our
gig at Brasserie Ferdinand in
November 9. Per Bach, bass, Lasse Collin, tenor sax, Lennart Carlsson,
drums, Hans Zakrisson, trombone, Lennart Mysto Werdell, banjo, and Sune
Linder, piano. Eva Karin Andersson, vocal, is outside the picture.
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Lika
som bär! Like twins!
Eva Karin Andersson, the singer in Red
Wing,
and Red Wing, the girl in the song.
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Video from Kometen!
Red
Wing, Brian Carrick and Eva Karin Andersson swinging and singing
"Smiles" on video at Restaurant Kometen in August 21, 2006.
CLICK HERE!
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Pics,
sounds and video from
Göteborgs Jazz Festival 2006.
More
nice pics of Red Wing, Brian Carrick and Eva Karin Andersson
at Göteborgs Jazz Festival in August 18 and 19, 2006.
CLICK HERE!
Listen
to Red Wing with Brian and Eva Karin at
Göteborgs Jazz Festival August 18 and 19.
CLICK HERE!
Video with the
wellknown couple Hammersley from England, visiting
Göteborgs Jazz Festival every year, spontaneously dancing to Red Wing
and
the beautiful voice of Eva Karin Andersson at Valand, August 19, 2006.
CLICK
HERE!
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Folkets röst.
Vi fick
ett mail till vår hemsida 15/9:
Hej.
Lyssnade idag på låtarna från Er hemsida och bokade 4 platser till Kiel
23/11. Vi tyckte också att Ni vann tävlingen på Nefertiti (stavningen)
välförtjänt även om t.ex. Bert Slättung och Big med flera tyckte att
det var för mycket ös. Men det tycker inte vi vanliga okunniga som gick
med i klubben innan den hette Classic Jazz. Fortsätt spela som ni gör.
Med vänlig hälsning
Björn Starkenberg
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Very
fine band indeed!
Red
Wing Band with
Brian Carrick and Ronald Andersen at the
Riverboat Jazz
Festival in Silkeborg, Denmark, June 23-24, 2006.
Photo: Tove Feragen.
One
of the largest festivals for classic jazz is the Riverboat Jazz
Festival in Silkeborg, Denmark. This year it was 40 years since the
first festival was arranged and there were over 60 bands on the line
up. Amongst them Red Wing Band with Brian Carrick, the master of New
Orleans-clarinet, and Ronald Andersen on drums, maybe more known as the
master of swingguitar. And not to forget the young vocalist of the
band, Eva Karin Andersson, whos happy voice sat the audience on fire.
The band played four sessions in crowded tents, around 1000 people each
time, and made a great succes with its rocking style, vitality and
swing. Some people said that Red Wing was one of the best bands in
show, or as Göran Hansson wrote in Blog Skaneland: "The
jazz festival in Silkeborg was fantastic. Brian Carrick
& Red Wing
was the best. All the band members except Brian Carrick were
from Göteborg and Alingsås. Very fine band indeed!"
En
av de större festivalerna för klassisk jazz är Riverboat Jazz Festival
i Silkeborg, Danmark. I år var det 40 år sedan den första festivalen
arrangerades och man hade satsat stort med över 60 band på startlinjen.
Bland dem Red Wing Band förstärkt med Brian Carrick på klarinett och
tenorsax och Ronald Andersen på trummor. Bandets unga vokalist Eva
Karin Andersson, som höjde stämningen lika mycket som hon sänkte
medelåldern i bandet, inte att förglömma. Bandet gjorde fyra
framträdanden för fullsatta tält, ca 1000 pers/gång, och gjorde stor
succé med sin spelglädje, vitalitet och sväng. Många menade att Red
Wing var ett av festivalens bästa band, eller som Göran Hansson skrev i
Blog Skaneland: "The
jazz festival in Silkeborg was fantastic. Brian Carrick
& Red Wing
was the best. All the band members except Brian Carrick were
from Göteborg and Alingsås. Very fine band indeed!"
Now
you can listen to Red Wing playing "Say si si" in Silkeborg. The track
is taken
from the CD (2-CD) "Riverboat Jazz Festival 2006", just released. On
the CD
are 29 tracks
from the programme on this years Riverboat Jazz Festival.
Listen to Red Wing here. Read more about the CD on Riverboat
Jazz Festival's site here.
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Look
for more old memories here!
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